[Peace-discuss] Urbana City Council meeting last night

[John W.]

At 04:24 PM 4/15/2008, Stuart Levy wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:52:38PM -0500, John W. wrote:
>
> > At 01:50 PM 4/15/2008, Karen Medina wrote:
> >
> >> cge>>flakier than a basket of fresh croissants.
> >>
> >> jw>Oh, indeed.  Much better to have a bunch of tough cookies
> >>
> >> I've just recently realized that Jeez tends to regard more harshly those
> >> that he considers fakes than those he considers to be polar opposites.
> >>
> >> On that note, I'll share a quote from an email signature. If one 
> thinks of
> >> the US and its role in Iraq while reading it, it has quite an effect:
> >>
> >> "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its 
> victim
> >> may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons
> >> than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may
> >> sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those 
> who
> >> torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so
> >> with the approval of their own conscience." C.S. Lewis
> >
> >
> > Who is Jeez?
>
>Carl.  Thanks to Laurie who recognized him as such, in a post that began:
>
>    Christ, isn't that a description of our government's enemies list, which
>    they have stamped as classified?   [...]


Hahahaha!  A little AWARE inside joke, then.  I'm highly tickled.  Thanks, 
Stuart.  :-)